Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck is made from maple , which was a surprise , because I was expecting mahogany . |
| 2 | I was expecting Jim . ’ |
| 3 | With the depressed economy and appalling trade figures ( improved a little , one hopes , by a healthy Christmas ) , I was expecting doom and gloom as I did my recent rounds of the publishing houses . |
| 4 | Did I really have it before I was expecting Annie ? |
| 5 | I was expecting death in a uniform , but it was just Frank McHugh , a beef-faced truck driver in a cloth cap . |
| 6 | Again , when I spoke to you during the interims , I was expecting redundancies during the year of , of er , about a thousand . |
| 7 | I was expecting Caracas . ’ |
| 8 | Sunwatchers : if you were expecting Texas Instruments to formally announce the Viking chip before Sun trots out its Viking boxes May 19 , take heart . |
| 9 | But surely even having second thoughts about marriage was n't enough to prompt that kind of reaction , particularly as Isabelle must have known she was expecting Fabien 's child . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you saying that Isabelle was pregnant — that she was expecting Fabien 's child when she ran away ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She was expecting Rick Lawrence about six o'clock . |
| 12 | When Alice said she had to go , because she was expecting Jasper , and stood up , Andrew did too , and seemed to hesitate . |
| 13 | I though we were expecting visitors today . " |
| 14 | I wore my trusty Scarpa Trionic Mantas ( £106 ) for the whole trek , as we were expecting snow and would therefore need the compatible Yeti Gaiters that help make the boots virtually waterproof . |
| 15 | I looked like a rag doll , and they were expecting princess Voluptua . |
| 16 | One BBC insider said they were expecting complaints from Mr Major about coverage of his early speeches , when his attempts to focus on constitutional issues went largely unreported . |
| 17 | They were expecting Club 18–30 , but she would be long gone before that intrusion . |
| 18 | They were expecting Princess Voluptua . ’ |
| 19 | I think they were expecting roller skates and waterfalls . ’ |
| 20 | 52% said they were expecting partner remuneration to fall in absolute terms over the next year . |
| 21 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 22 | Not only had his troops let him down , but he was expecting Austria and probably the entire German Confederation to enter the war on the allied side . |
| 23 | Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on . |
| 24 | The Palace Hotel was run by a trio of brothers : a burly one-eyed masseur , a half-witted fellow with a pointed head , and a hugely obese young man who joked from his chair in the lobby , from which he rarely stirred , that he was expecting twins . |
| 25 | Microsoft senior vice president Paul Maritz told Compaq Computer Corp he was expecting NT to ship by the end of June . |
| 26 | Microsoft senior vice-president Paul Maritz told Compaq Computer Corp he was expecting NT to ship by the end of June and Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same . |
| 27 | That meant he was expecting trouble . |